Meet Kerrin McCadden, Poet, Educator, and Faculty at the Conference on Poetry and Teaching

Kerrin McCadden is the author of Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes, winner of the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize and the 2015 Vermont Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, The Frost Place, The Sustainable Arts Foundation, The Vermont Arts Council, and The Vermont Arts Endowment Fund. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Verse Daily, and in such journals as American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Collagist, Green Mountains Review, Poet Lore, and Rattle. A graduate of The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she teaches at Montpelier High School and lives in Plainfield, Vermont.

Kerrin is closely involved with Poetry Out Loud and has traveled to the Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington D.C. with Montpelier’s Vermont State Champion. She is on the faculty of the New England Young Writers’ Conference at Bread Loaf and the Champlain College Young Writers’ Conference. She was a fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for Teachers.

LEARN MORE about the Conference on Poetry and Teaching, where Kerrin is faculty in 2016.